It's either my cat or a car cover
 

I had my car in the garage last night and when I came out to gaze at my black beauty I saw DIRTY CAT PAW PRINTS ON THE TRUNK!!!! I was PO'd beyond belief and threw the cat out of the garage....today I washed my car between rain showers, slicked up the tires and put it in the garage...my cat was sitting on my garden tractor when I went in the garage but as I was upstairs on my PC, my wife yelled "THE CAT IS ON YOUR CAR!!!!"...i yelled "DONT SPOOK IT!!!"...thats all I needed was the cat getting spooked and its paws starts slipping trying to gain traction to get off my car and leave a million fine sccratches....I get out there and its standing on the back window looking at me...i gently grab it by its neck and throw it out of the garage again and shut the garage...paw prints ALL OVER MY Z!!!!! and dirty paw prints to boot.

I have 2 options

1. Bring my cat to the SPCA cuz I can't keep it in the garage anymore when my car is in there...even if its in the driveway, it will lay on it cuz the hood is warm from the engine

2. EIther lock cat out of garage when my car is in it or lock cat in garage when my car is outside..but I'm gonna start parking in garage now and its a kind of pain to leave it outside all night

3. Get a car cover..but i feel like I'm gonna end up scuffing up the paint trying to cover the car all the time...dont they have like a soft cloth you just drape over the car? Atleast if the cat crawled on it then I'd get no paw prints.

Any suggestions?

LOL I can completly relate to your post. It never fails with my cat, always on the hood and the roof. I can not count how many times that I have had to clean the car from my cat jumping on to it with muddy paws. A car cover would do the trick I guess? Try an old light sheet draped across the car. The only problem I could think of there is that it might not stay on with a cat climbing on your car.

I am having the same problem and decided to order a Noah car cover to day. Most say they quality and thick for protection.

Show me your cat.... :icon34:

check your PM's Canadian.

How many times would you have to ambush the cat (squirt gun should work) before he knows to keep his grimy paws off your car? My neighbor's cat knows I've got it out for him, so he stays away, but I know he's just itching to get revenge on me.

lol..well for now i leave the car in the garage when i get home at night and keep the cats outside...i feel kinda bad though cuz MY cat (the other 2 are strays that just hang around all the time now and i feed them all) was an indoor cat and we had him declawed up front...but then he kept wizzing all over the house so we had to throw him out...we had 2 but one dissappeared one day :(

Hey, if you ripped my fingernails off, I'd be wizzing all over your house and tracking mud on your car too! :D

Here's something I just thought of - get some moth balls, put them in a sock, and place the socks around the car. I've heard cats hate the smell of moth balls.

ill try that doug..thanks